I realise that its not WordPress itself which is responsible for the Spell Checking, However, I feel that if WordPress includes a spellcheck functionality, It would be good for it to actually recognise "WordPress" instead of "Word-Press" or "Word Press" (It even goes on to suggest "WarDress" and "Depress"

Does anyone have a contact (Or know who to contact) in order to get "WordPress into the dictionary used, Or maybe how to ignore the WordPress corrections on the result?

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Unfortunately this isn't as easy as adding a word to it. The default in the spell checker is to use Google, but it can also use pspell if installed on the server. Can probably try to hard-code "WordPress" in the js part, so it skips over it.

The last patch on this ticket depended heavily on #9798. The patch on #9798 has been completely rewritten since 4 weeks ago therefore I think is not ready for testing at this point. #9798 should to be implemented first and then we need a new patch for this ticket.

I've taken the time to patch this in TinyMCE upstream. Essentially, I've added a configurable option with a list of words to be excluded from the spell check. I've patched this for the core spellchecker plugin and submitted a pull request upstream:

Whether or not it's adopted by the parent project is entirely up to them. Considering the spellchecker plugin hasn't been updated in over a year (last commit was 11/5/2011), maybe we should consider patching WP's version and just moving forward?